OVERHANG (overhung)

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Irregular inflected form: overhung   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overhang mean? 

• OVERHANG (noun)
  The noun OVERHANG has 1 sense:

1. projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else

  Familiarity information: OVERHANG used as a noun is very rare.

• OVERHANG (verb)
  The verb OVERHANG has 2 senses:

1. project over

2. be suspended over or hang over

  Familiarity information: OVERHANG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERHANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("overhang" is a kind of...):

projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overhang"):

eaves (the overhang at the lower edge of a roof)

fantail (an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship)

Derivation:

overhang (be suspended over or hang over)

overhang (project over)

• OVERHANG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overhang    ... he / she / it overhangs   
Past simple: overhung   
Past participle: overhung   
-ing form: overhanging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Project over

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "overhang" is one way to...):

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out (extend out or project in space)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

overhang (projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be suspended over or hang over

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

beetle; overhang

Context example:

This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town

Hypernyms (to "overhang" is one way to...):

hang (be suspended or hanging)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

overhang (projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else)

 Context examples 

The butt rested against the outside of the port rail, while the top of the mast overhung the water far beyond the starboard rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont Salêve?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The she-wolf was trotting wearily along, her mate well in advance, when she came upon the overhanging, high clay-bank.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This protein is involved in both the removal of 5' overhangs during DNA repair and the processing of the 5' end of Okazaki fragments during DNA replication.

(Flap Endonuclease 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Through all this sneering talk, I was made to feel the threat of death that overhung me, and my cheeks burned and my heart beat painfully in my breast.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have said that a thick fringe of green overhung the edge of the cliff.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the left was a large, deep fireplace, with a massive, overhanging oak mantelpiece.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A stretch of telomeric DNA where the normally guanine-rich (TTAGGG)n overhanging sequence has gaps while the cytosine-rich (AATCCC)n opposite strand remains intact.

(C-Circle, NCI Thesaurus)

Telomerase specifically elongates the 3-prime end of a single-stranded overhang region on the G-rich 3-prime strand while the C-rich strand can be filled in by DNA polymerases.

(Elongation by Telomerase, NCI Thesaurus)

The Micawber family were lodged in a little, dirty, tumble-down public-house, which in those days was close to the stairs, and whose protruding wooden rooms overhung the river.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)